Jul 09 2012

Manic Monday

Published by at 4:55 am under Bullshit,Detroit,Travel

I know most of you spend most of your time wishing you were Me, but today you would much prefer to be You.

I promise.

Here’s my unenviable schedule for today:

  • 6 am: Get up. (Check! Up at 5:30 to discover that cats have broken one of my Elvis movie poster glasses. Bonus: water all over the place!)
  • Get ready. Pack up car. Try not to forget anything. Say goodbye to kitties, assuming they aren’t out playing in the sunshine, which they almost certainly will be.
  • Leave by 8:00 am for 45 minute drive to the jobette.
  • 12:00 pm: Purchase forgotten items at lunch.
  • 4:00 pm: leave work for 4 hour drive to San Francisco.
  • Dinner somewhere along the way. I have a $28 travel day meal allowance, so I guess this means Chez Panisse is out.
  • Park car somewhere at SFO. Drag Self and Stuff into terminal. Suffer usual indignities of having the temerity to travel. I am betting that I will be behind a couple of oldsters who have been living under a rock in one of the square states and has somehow managed never to have heard about the enforced shoe removal rule.
  • Festina lente, as our Latin forebears would have it, though they couldn’t possibly have imagined waiting for a midnight flight to a place you don’t want to go to in the first (or second, or third) place.
  • Hope the bar is still open.
  • Terrifying transport to O’Hare, the busiest airport in the entire US of A, arriving at the unsalubrious hour of 6:20 am.
  • Change planes, which will probably include changing terminals with my terminally sleep-deprived self.
  • Somehow manage to arrive in Detroit at 9:40 am. Couldn’t I have gotten to Europe in all that time? Or at least Hawaii?
  • Drop bags off at hotel, resist urge to leap into Lake Ontario, and head to a meeting at our as yet unseen (to me) office near the ballpark. Needless to say, it’s the All Star Break, so the proximity to the ballpark is completely useless. I am even more certain that the American League will win than I was about the airport oldsters.
  • Meet with our lawyers. I imagine this will take my mind right off the impending trip home and the crown that is awaiting me if I am (un)lucky enough to survive the trip. Bonus!

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

3 responses so far

3 Responses to “Manic Monday”

  1. # Joyon 09 Jul 2012 at 9:02 am

    You will be just fine, Suzy…..Che Sera, Sera…..whatever will be, will be, etc., etc., Look at it this way…you will most probably too tired to worry so much…..and after a couple of drinks you will be more relaxed too. Don’t forget too drink lots of water on the plane this helps with jet lag effects…
    Take care…..we will all be thinking of you……

    jx

  2. # Guy Charbonneauon 09 Jul 2012 at 9:18 am

    There are times that we all want so desperately to feel a re-assuring hand upon us, there are times we we want a strong arm around us. Know that you do have such a gift, your family, your friends, your animals. When things seem difficult, think about all of them, you will be comforted with thoughts of love that are sent to you, be strong.

  3. # LisaBon 09 Jul 2012 at 1:30 pm

    hey, on the up side, you….. well. uh. it will be over quickly? Hope it’s all going smoothly & you’re back home quickly!